FormerDJMike wrote:I knew about Edge because Damn Yanks were on Rockline. A caller asked about a new Styx album and Tommy said there was one coming but he wanted them to get the hype for it and let them give out the info. A few weeks later all 5 members of Styx were on Rockline and it's a great interview. I think I have it on cassette somewhere.

Since there were no online boards I used to get a bi-monthly newsletter called 976-STYX. Was pretty cool, would come in the mail with the latest news. Kind of miss those days.

I already knew who Glen was at the time because I had Heroes & Zeroes.

Yeah, GH is pretty solid. I actually prefer Lady 95 over the original.

Actually, there were online forums back then, as far back as 1991 or so. The largest community was on Prodigy, the most active was on GEnie (General Electric's online service). AOL also had music forums...but I never saw much for Styx. Prodigy had both Donna Lettow (from 976-Styx) and Micky Jorgensen (from Yankee Pride, the DY fan mag). Micky is pretty cool...we were in communication for a long time. She is a professional photographer and sent me a whole of DY pics from concerts in MN, where she is from. She is one person who actually did know the band. Oh, yeah, and Glen made some posts on Prodigy but stirred up a hornets nest because people didn't believe it was him.

They were absolutely crazy busy forums back then. At times, they had more than a hundred messages per day...much busier than the Journey forums that existed. There was a lot of soap opera type stuff that went on back then, too. But, there were no blatant trolls like Toph, either.

It was a fun time, back then. At that time, I did travel around and met a few Styx fans, saw a DY concert with some.

Yeah I was on the Indra mailing list back in the early 90's. That's when Keith would post on there regularly (sorry, I forgot his last name at the moment!). I kept in touch with Donna and Micky as well and have no idea where either of them are today. I remember around 92 or 93 Donna was in town and stopped by my house. It's around the time CITA was released on CD because I had just bought it and she hadn't seen it yet.

I kind of miss the old days of the newsletters, those were a lot of fun as were the letters JY used to send out. I used to have them all saved but ended up misplacing them in one of my many moves to several states. Good memories of those days!

FormerDJMike wrote:I knew about Edge because Damn Yanks were on Rockline. A caller asked about a new Styx album and Tommy said there was one coming but he wanted them to get the hype for it and let them give out the info. A few weeks later all 5 members of Styx were on Rockline and it's a great interview. I think I have it on cassette somewhere.

Since there were no online boards I used to get a bi-monthly newsletter called 976-STYX. Was pretty cool, would come in the mail with the latest news. Kind of miss those days.

I already knew who Glen was at the time because I had Heroes & Zeroes.

Yeah, GH is pretty solid. I actually prefer Lady 95 over the original.

Actually, there were online forums back then, as far back as 1991 or so. The largest community was on Prodigy, the most active was on GEnie (General Electric's online service). AOL also had music forums...but I never saw much for Styx. Prodigy had both Donna Lettow (from 976-Styx) and Micky Jorgensen (from Yankee Pride, the DY fan mag). Micky is pretty cool...we were in communication for a long time. She is a professional photographer and sent me a whole of DY pics from concerts in MN, where she is from. She is one person who actually did know the band. Oh, yeah, and Glen made some posts on Prodigy but stirred up a hornets nest because people didn't believe it was him.

They were absolutely crazy busy forums back then. At times, they had more than a hundred messages per day...much busier than the Journey forums that existed. There was a lot of soap opera type stuff that went on back then, too. But, there were no blatant trolls like Toph, either.

It was a fun time, back then. At that time, I did travel around and met a few Styx fans, saw a DY concert with some.

]]>2018-06-28T19:05:21+10:002018-06-28T19:05:21+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746620#p4746620Statistics: Posted by Archetype — Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:05 pm
]]>2018-06-29T10:27:36+10:002018-06-28T07:16:25+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746594#p4746594Since there were no online boards I used to get a bi-monthly newsletter called 976-STYX. Was pretty cool, would come in the mail with the latest news. Kind of miss those days.

I already knew who Glen was at the time because I had Heroes & Zeroes.

Yeah, GH is pretty solid. I actually prefer Lady 95 over the original.

yogi wrote:On Greatest Hits Vol 2 they should of included Why Me and Music Time since they both did chart. I also would of included Love Is the Ritual. It might of been Motley Styx, but where I was at the time Beaumont,TX it got a ton of play from the 2 Houston Rock stations and it charted in the top 10 of Billboards Hard Rock Category. Introduced Styx fans to the 'new Tommy Shaw'

The funny thing for me about LITR is that at the time I was unaware the Styx had gotten back together and were releasing a new album. I remember the DJ on our local rock station announce "here's a brand new song from Styx". I was like really?? Then when the vocal started I was like who the hell is that singing?

yogi wrote:On Greatest Hits Vol 2 they should of included Why Me and Music Time since they both did chart. I also would of included Love Is the Ritual. It might of been Motley Styx, but where I was at the time Beaumont,TX it got a ton of play from the 2 Houston Rock stations and it charted in the top 10 of Billboards Hard Rock Category. Introduced Styx fans to the 'new Tommy Shaw'

The funny thing for me about LITR is that at the time I was unaware the Styx had gotten back together and were releasing a new album. I remember the DJ on our local rock station announce "here's a brand new song from Styx". I was like really?? Then when the vocal started I was like who the hell is that singing?

]]>2018-06-27T15:09:39+10:002018-06-27T15:09:39+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746555#p4746555Statistics: Posted by yogi — Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:09 pm
]]>2018-06-27T14:01:44+10:002018-06-27T14:01:44+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746553#p4746553 Best Of Styx [1977] would be their very first compilation album with Lady [1980] as their second (also know as Lady.. The Encore Collection on CD)

I was more focusing on the actual title of Greatest Hits in terms of 'what came first'

]]>2018-06-27T13:02:35+10:002018-06-27T13:02:35+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746551#p4746551But yes, Greatest Hits ('95) is by far and away their best and most successful greatest hits package. The one nit I have is that Rockin' The Paradise should be on it as well. The fact that it is not is a major crime. Other minor nits would be that there are some top 40 hits that didn't make it (but eventually made it on GH2 except for "Why Me" and "Music Time").

]]>2018-06-27T11:15:42+10:002018-06-27T11:15:42+10:00http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=61932&p=4746543#p4746543How they are not in the R&R Hall of Fame is a crime. What a variety of GREAT GREAT songs, with their albums being even BETTER!!

PSS- Does anyone know how many copies of their Greatest Hits album have been sold?